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PMI Agile Certification Pilot Starting

Early adopters who want to be among the first to earn the new PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) designation can apply starting May 23rd for the PMI Agile Certification pilot. Those selected for the pilot will need to take and pass a multiple choice exam on Agile fundamentals to receive the PMI-ACP certification.

To be in the loop for the pilot send an email to AgilePilot@pmi.org. You will receive a confirmation reply and subsequent updates.

January 1st - First set of individuals that passed the exam are notified

To get the certification, you will have to take, and pass, a three hour multiple choice exam that will test knowledge of Agile fundamentals and your ability to apply them to basic projects. The PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Handbook clarifies that 100 of those questions will count in your score while 20 are un-scored pretest questions used to validate future questions.

2,000 hours (12 months) working on project teams, accrued in the last 5 years

1,500 additional hours (8 months) working on Agile teams, accrued in the last 2 years

21 hours of training earned in Agile project management topics

Unlike the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, where the PMIBOK serves as the primary reference, there is no single published body of knowledge for the Agile certification test; instead the PMI provides reference materials for exam preparation. As with the PMP you can take courses to help you prepare for the test and to meet the requirement for 21 training hours.

Every time I've seen people with PMI certifications show up on a project, it's run over budget, over time, and usually ended up not getting delivered. It's just plain as simple as that. I don't know if its the organization, or whether people who are bothering to tout a certification do so because it's the only thing they have, but this news just causes me nausea.